200 years of fairy tales

Little Red Riding Hood, actually actress Dorothee Weppler, wears the local Schwalm region folk dress with its red cap as she walks through a forest on the estate of Baron von Schwaerzel in Willingshausen, Germany. Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images

Little Red Riding Hood, actually actress Dorothee Weppler, wears the local Schwalm region folk dress with its red cap as she walks through a forest on the estate of Baron von Schwaerzel in Willingshausen, Germany. Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images

Little Red Riding Hood, actually actress Dorothee Weppler, wears the local Schwalm region folk dress with its red cap as she walks through a forest on the estate of Baron von Schwaerzel in Willingshausen, Germany. Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images

A memorial showing brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, authors of Grimms' Fairy Tales, stands in a small park on November 20, 2012 in Kassel, Germany. Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images

Books of Grimms' fairy tales stand on display for sale at the Grimm Brothers Museum in Kassel, Germany. Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images

A museum administration employee, at the request of the photographer, looks at a painting of brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm at the Grimm Brothers Museum in Kassel, Germany. Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images

Visitors walk among busts of brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm in the library at the Grimm Brothers Museum in Kassel, Germany. Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images

A museum administration employee looks at busts of brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm at the Grimm Brothers Museum in Kassel, Germany. Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images

First and second-edition books of Grimms' Fairy Tales lie in a display at the Grimm Brothers Museum in Kassel, Germany. Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images

The Pied Piper of Hamelin, actually city tourism employee Michael Boyer, leads local children dressed as rats through a quiet street in Hameln, Germany. Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images

The Pied Piper of Hamelin, actually city tourism employee Michael Boyer, leads local children dressed as rats through a quiet street in Hameln, Germany. Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images

Germany is celebrating the 200th anniversary of the Grimm brothers by acting out their famous fairy tales.

The Grimm brothers collected their stories from oral traditions in the
region between Frankfurt and Bremen in the early 19th century, and the
works include such global classics as Rapunzel, Little Red Riding Hood,
The Pied Piper of Hamelin, Cinderella and Hansel and Gretel. ﻿